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• Book Report: Airline Book Picks, Hotel Libraries, Ebook Sales & More!

  
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  Readin on a Jet Plane   Some recommended reads for those long flights. Chick Lit is Dead, Long Live Farm Lit   The grown genre known as "Farm Lit" from the Atlantic . Reports of the Bookstores Death Are Greatly Exaggerated   Contrary to popular, small, independent bookstores are not going the way of the ...
  4 days ago

• ‘THIS IS A BOOKSHOP’ Sign Goes Viral

  
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  A reader snapped a photograph of that sign at the The Albion Beatnik bookstore in Oxford. After ten hours, the sign has been viewed nearly 9,000 times online as digital readers share their love of bookstores. Here’s more about the Albion Beatnik at For Book’s Sake (be sure to read the entire review): ...
  1 week ago

• Man picks up a copy of Sweet Tooth.

  
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  Did you hear about Ian McEwan, hes terminally ill, he says. I think you mean Iain Banks, I say. Yeah, thats right, he says. I knew it was one of them. Its a shame, he adds, he was a really good writer.
  2 weeks ago

• Sales Tax Bill Passes U.S. Senate

  
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  The U.S. Senate has passed the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013 (S.743), approving a bill that would make online sellers with $1 million or more in yearly sales (including booksellers like Amazon) to collect state sales tax. The U.S. House of Representatives must now consider the bill. The bill was introduced by ...
  2 weeks ago

• Book Report: Guantanamo Library, Self Publishers Take Over, Boston Love & More!

  
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  Authors Draw Up "Manifesto" to Save Bookshops   Some local Venice authors have drawn up a "manifesto" to save their book stores. Guantanamo Library Tumblr   A Tumblr of the library books at Guantanamo prison. F. Scott Fizgeralds Accounts   BBC reports that Great Gatsby author, F. Scott Fitzgeralds ...
  2 weeks ago

• BookCourt Raising Funds to Buy Bibliobarn

  
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  The team behind Brooklyn’s Bookcourt bookstore has launched an Indiegogo campaign to buy the Bibliobarn property in New York’s Catskill Mountains and reopen as BookCourt North. They have created a number of interesting perks for contributors. For $1,255 contribution, you can host an event at the future ...
  2 weeks ago

• Art Deco Dust Jackets

  
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  While perusing the New York Antiquarian Book Show, I came across a seller, Yesterday’s Gallery & Babylon Revisited, whose inventory almost exclusively deals in the period between the wars. The dust jackets of that span reflected the artistic craze now known as Art Deco. I’ve collected many books with the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Stan the window cleaner reviews a book.

  
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  Morning Stan, I say. Morning Matthew, Stan says. That was a proper three-card trick with that thirteen pound book you sold me, he says. I laugh. Wasnt no twenty pound notes in nineteen-sixty-eight, he says. Ten bob, possibly a fiver but I never saw one, but no twenty pound notes. Thing is, Jonathan, he ...
  3 weeks ago

• Auto machina

  
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  Auto machina. An Italian couple stand at the counter speaking Italian. Auto machina, the man says again. All around there is a party going on. A party that will be written up in the history of the shop as the night of a hundred bottles. One more person through the door and the room will go pop. Auto machina, he ...
  3 weeks ago

• Uh oh. New iNDIE eBOOK SHOP badge.

  
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  Just over there. On the left. You can now buy ebooks with book tokens. Groovy. Or something.
  4 weeks ago

• Alexandria, Virginia Is Amazon’s Most Well-Read City in America

  
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  Alexandria, Virginia is the most well-read city in America once again , according to Amazon’s annual ranking that measures ”all book, magazine and newspaper sales in both print and Kindle format” in cities around the country. Gone Girl by  Gillian Flynn  was the most popular novel purchased in that city, ...
  4 weeks ago

• Card Readers, Amazon and Library Sales

  
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  I’m still catching up with my contacts made from the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books. I had to manually make a few credit card charges. My new Intuit card reader quit working and the backup I brought with me would not work, either. Bummer. I have had a merchant account system connected to my website for years ...
  4 weeks ago

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